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scamp1234's review
3.0
I really enjoyed Sandra McDonald's, Our Daughters, and Rachel Swirsky's reprint, All That Fairy Tale Crap. Overall a decent issue being the last one from [a:Lynne M. Thomas|2897358|Lynne M. Thomas|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1307040867p2/2897358.jpg]. Interested in how the new editor will handle everything.
macthekat's review
4.0
The story was well written, with very real emotions and a powerful subject matter. However, I just wasn't very interesting. I find that I am less interested in hearing stories about powerful subjects directly than the stories that talk about it indirectly. I find it easier to think about these kinds of subject with the distance that a story not set in our world lens. I can see the subject matter instead of the details of the story. So it is not that there is anything wrong with this story, it just wasn't for me.
Merged review:
It had gotten pretty late today before I remembered that I had a story to read, so I went for the shortest story on my reader to be perfectly honest. Of course all of the fiction in this issue of Apex Magazine had been recommended by Tansy Rayner Roberts on Galactic Suburbia.
This story was a piece of stunt writing - it is all one long sentence. Like a flow of conciseness. And it worked really well. I particularly liked the last bit where it mused about thinking back being a bit like a run-on sentence.
The story is about a guy trying to figure out when he realised that the world had changed. We all know that feeling. For me it conjured up 9.11 as the point where I knew that world had changed. I knew I had lived through a historical event that had changed the world, but you don't realise that till at least a few days later. And you definitely don't realise how it has changed till much much later.
The man in the story is also thinking about everyday life, domesticity. It is quite rare in science fiction stories to see this much everyday life. Even though the story is super short, I think we get a good look into the man's life. I have quite a good idea of what his everyday life looks like. What kind of problems he has. What the state of his marriage is. How he feel about his job etc. All in just under 700 words. That is remarkable.
I think it was effective, well told and enjoyable!
Read more of my reviews: http://www.mackat.dk/book/
Merged review:
It had gotten pretty late today before I remembered that I had a story to read, so I went for the shortest story on my reader to be perfectly honest. Of course all of the fiction in this issue of Apex Magazine had been recommended by Tansy Rayner Roberts on Galactic Suburbia.
This story was a piece of stunt writing - it is all one long sentence. Like a flow of conciseness. And it worked really well. I particularly liked the last bit where it mused about thinking back being a bit like a run-on sentence.
The story is about a guy trying to figure out when he realised that the world had changed. We all know that feeling. For me it conjured up 9.11 as the point where I knew that world had changed. I knew I had lived through a historical event that had changed the world, but you don't realise that till at least a few days later. And you definitely don't realise how it has changed till much much later.
The man in the story is also thinking about everyday life, domesticity. It is quite rare in science fiction stories to see this much everyday life. Even though the story is super short, I think we get a good look into the man's life. I have quite a good idea of what his everyday life looks like. What kind of problems he has. What the state of his marriage is. How he feel about his job etc. All in just under 700 words. That is remarkable.
I think it was effective, well told and enjoyable!
Read more of my reviews: http://www.mackat.dk/book/
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